Or an idiot. Knowing how strong and fast his enemy was, anyone with half a brain would have come prepared with better weapons and a better plan. But not Oliver. He just struts in and gets his ass handed to him.

Thea's boyfriend is standing five feet from the vigilante, looking dead at him and *still* can't tell it's Ollie. Then Ollie shoots him with an arrow. Now *that's* being a dick. He could have just explained why the bad guy was so dangerous.

I know it's a tv show but the bad guy punched Ollie in the side and through the truck's closed door. Ollie should have a big fist sized hole in his abdomen.

Or an idiot. Knowing how strong and fast his enemy was, anyone with half a brain would have come prepared with better weapons and a better plan. But not Oliver. He just struts in and gets his ass handed to him.

Although he said he'd beaten one of the super-soldiers before, so presumably he had some kind of strategy in mind (not that he got much use out of it!)...

Although he said he'd beaten one of the super-soldiers before, so presumably he had some kind of strategy in mind (not that he got much use out of it!)...

In the Brad Meltzer penned Green Arrow arc, "The Archer's Quest", Ollie put an arrow through each of Solomon Grundy's feet, pining him in place and enabling Grundy's downfall.

So seeing him do it in the TV show amused me although I'm guessing that Geoff Johns realized that Grundy could pull the arrows out.

It does seem to be that they are about introduce super powers into the Arrow universe though.
Although Barry Allen is an interesting choice to appear in Arrow as in the comics, Barry and Ollie haven't exactly been friends.
(Something about a custody battle over Hal Jordan.)

The casting of Barry Allen left a little to be desired (he should have been blonde.) I always thought of Barry as less of a social nerd. The explanation of his parent's death is interesting: I'm thinking Professor Zoom.

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The casting of Barry Allen left a little to be desired (he should have been blonde.) I always thought of Barry as less of a social nerd. The explanation of his parent's death is interesting: I'm thinking Professor Zoom.

That's the irony of the comic book version...

Spoiler:

Barry Allen becomes the Flash as in indirect result of his desire to find out who murdered his mother, and his being the Flash directly leads to Zoom killing his mother.

It would certainly give them an ongoing storyline for the Flash TV show...